106 Films about Fascinating People

On the eve of her 100th birthday, Rock musician Lou Reed sat down with his cousin Shirley for a tête-à-tête

A chronological telling of American Hollywood actor James Dean's, short life and career, two years after his death

An ethnic journey; searching for a sense of home in the most livable city in the United States

An unflinching look at how one family copes with the terminal illness of the matriarch

THE DEATH OF ANDY KAUFMAN; was it the greatest hoax of all time?

A documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler

D.W. Griffith explores the life and turbulent times of Abraham Lincoln

Tailgate 32, the ultimate football fan road trip, is a tribute to the great American traditions of road-tripping, tailgating and professional football

Hosted by the great Edward R. Murrow, this 1949 report, set to video images, features interviews and sound bites of military and civilian witnesses to many of the early landmark UFO encounters

An American documentary filmmaker crosses the lines of Nigeria’s oil conflict.

The dramatic story of eminent photographer Edward S. Curtis and the creation of his monumental portfolio of Native American images.

Tailgate 32, the ultimate football fan road trip, is a tribute to the great American traditions of road-tripping, tailgating and professional football

Tailgate 32, the ultimate football fan road trip, is a tribute to the great American traditions of road-tripping, tailgating and professional football

Tailgate 32, the ultimate football fan road trip, is a tribute to the great American traditions of road-tripping, tailgating and professional football

Two wannabe thugs take a group of blues bar employees hostage and stand off with cops after a botched robbery attempt

An exploration of the career of gallery owner/art collector Allan Stone

Art within Art: Project 798, piece of contemporary art itself, mimics its subject matter about the Chinese contemporary art scene; it gets meta

ART CITY #3: A RULING PASSION plumbs issues that affect artists - preoccupations of startling universality - like community, motivation and controversy, finding one’s audience, and just “getting it right”

SIMPLICITY addresses artists’ relations with the press, feelings about showing one’s work, distilling concepts into an essence, and what it means to succeed in the art world

From abstraction to figuration, from installation to conceptual art, from the privacy of the doctor's office to the posh gallery opening, MAKING IT IN MANHATTAN captures the reality of a special world

A stunning tour of the latest discoveries on Saturn and its amazing moons, including the discovery of salt water geysers on Enceladus

Portrait of a gay rural mailman

Following the path of Ronald Reagan from his childhood through his presidency

The evolving character and story of a major urban, metropolitan city by an immigrant community

The totem of the video game is the dream of wealth but also the mystery of a man killed on the seaside having a tattoo similar to the video game

A feature-length drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter

Documentarians follow 3 men with potentially unpleasant careers: a bull semen collector, a sewage tank pumper, and an embalmer

A personal investigation in to the weird world of domestic surveillance in post 9-11 America

The story of how a young lifesaver, Achmat Hassiem, overcomes a savage attack by a Great White shark

Reminscent of early Cinémá-Vérité, HALF A BEE captures the ramblings of small town poet/musician Eric Morder - on life, love, obsession and Zeusy the Cat - and in doing so shows us a 33-year-old man in the throes of growing up

A controversial documentary about gay men purposely contracting the AIDS virus

A Greek tragedy set in Louisiana, a cast of bizarre, comedic characters, pursue uncommon dreams of their own making

An American chamber music group tours the Middle East from Israel to Egypt, to Jordan, to Syria, bringing young Arabic and Jewish musicians together to perform music

World famous classical pianist Byron Janis battles arthritis throughout his long career

Famous opera singer Jan Peerce reflects on his career and Jewish roots with Isaac Stern

NEW LOW is a fresh, laugh-out-loud comedy with a punk aesthetic and razor sharp dialogue